HCG Take 1

Good news!  My HCG level was 196, which is right on track for the range for how far along I am.  I have to go for another check tomorrow; we're looking for a 60%+ increase for a healthy pregnancy.  If that happens, then I go back next week (& weekly thereafter until the levels are above 15,000).  Then my doc will set us up with a viability and dating ultrasound - yay, we get to see baby!!!

I am brainstorming ways to tell Craig the news on our anniversary.  I know I can sign a card from me, Gabe, and baby due Nov 2018, but I feel like I should be more creative, haha!  Maybe I need to get Gabe a big brother shirt (NOT through Amazon because Craig gets notifications, haha!) and leave it out for him to put Gabe into when he dresses him.  Then see how long it takes him to notice!!  In the meantime, hide the card so when he texts me if I need to tell him something, I can tell him to look there...  Hmm... that's a good start...

Anyway, I'm feeling good, though a little crampy in my lower belly, which is apparently normal.  Oh  and tired!  But that could be chasing after a 3 year old!!

(From www.2heartsnetwork.org:)

Powerful is your intercession with God, Mary, for you are his mother. Tender, too, is your love for us, for you are our mother. Confidently , then, I come to you as a child, poor and needy, to seek your aid and protection. In every trial of motherhood, I beg your aid. For the grace of a happy delivery, I come to you. For your holy assistance in guarding  and directing each tiny soul with which God entrusts me, I call to you. In every sorrow that comes to me in my motherhood, I confide in you.

That I may have strength to bear cheerfully all the pains and hardships of motherhood, I lean on you. That the sweetness of motherhood may not through my neglect be embittered in later years by pains of regret, I trust in you. That the will of God may always be fulfilled in me through each act of my motherhood, little and great, I beg your aid. Never forsake me dear Mother, my hope, my consolation, my confidence, and my trust, but ever be at my side to aid and protect me, your needy child. Amen. Mother of Love, of Sorrow, and of Mercy, Pray for us!